Languages in Contact and Contrast: Essays in Contact Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Book 54)

The papers in this collection throw fresh light on the relation between language contact and contrastive linguistics. The book focuses equally on the mutual influence of linguistic systems in contact and on the language contrasts that govern the linguistic behaviour of the bilingual speaker. This volume is dedicated to Rudolf Filipovi, who has had more than an ephemeral vision of Europe as a self-contained linguistic area.